Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director at IETF Administration LLC
New Zealand
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Top SchoolJay Daley is an experienced internet governance and infrastructure leader with 12+ years in senior roles, currently serving as Executive Director of the IETF and based in New Zealand. He combines deep expertise in domain name systems, critical internet infrastructure and trusted markets with practical skills in data analytics and data commercialisation. Jay has led registries and technical organisations through operational transformation, product diversification and high-availability DNS services supporting hundreds of millions of daily queries. He has a strong governance track record—serving on ICANN advisory bodies, as a board director and as interim CEO of the Public Interest Registry—balancing technical, financial and legal responsibilities. An early adopter of applying big data and machine learning to registry operations, he brings an unusual blend of hands-on technical insight and strategic fundraising and policy experience. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex internet ecosystems into resilient, people-centred institutions.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence at University of Sussex
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
ietf10
convert10
django10
ascii10
xml10
frontend10
database10
mailing-list9
html9
csv8
rfc8
tabula8
pdf7
pdf-files7
excel7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ietf/www.ietf.org
Aug 2023 - May 2026
Key pages from www.ietf.org that have their authoritative content here in Markdown to enable PRs
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 9 months
markdown
ietf-tools/v3grammar
Aug 2021 - Sep 2025
Versions of the post-V3 grammar used by xml2rfc
Contributions:24 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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